Events

Rotary in Australia welcomes Rotarians and guests from all over the world to the Rotary International Convention 2023, in what is the largest international event secured for Melbourne this century.

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VENUES

The Melbourne Convention will be held across two venues:

General Sessions Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne Park

House of Friendship & Breakouts Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC)

Fresh produce, friendly stallholders, gala atmosphere and the joy of shopping outdoors in the fresh air. The Boroondara Farmers Market, voted the best Farmers Market in Victoria, is held on the third and fifth Saturdays of every month.

Changeover Board Meeting

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As Rotarians, we know that when we engage people in meaningful, convenient and fun hands-on volunteering, we demonstrate that Rotarians are indeed “People of Action”. In mid-September, this message found an even wider audience when Rotary Inner Melbourne Emergency Relief Network (RIMERN) volunteer, Ros McMaster was announced as the Westfield Local Hero for the Airport West Shopping Centre, winning $20,000 for RIMERN towards the cost of its first van!

For more, read this story from the District 9800 Networker 

Fresh produce, friendly stallholders, gala atmosphere and the joy of shopping outdoors in the fresh air. The Boroondara Farmers Market, voted the best Farmers Market in Victoria, is held on the third and fifth Saturdays of every month.

Join President Teresa Liu and President-Elect Mark Howlett in a celebration of the achievements of one and the start of another Rotary year, as the office bearers for 2022-2023 are thanked and their contributions recognised, and the new club leadership team for 2023-2024 are welcomed.

Join President Teresa Liu and President-Elect Mark Howlett in a celebration of the achievements of one and the start of another Rotary year, as the office bearers for 2022-2023 are thanked and the club leadership team for 2023-2024 are welcomed.

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One of Australia’s leading selected entry art shows featuring many of Australia’s top artists is on again at Swinburne University from 24th June to 2nd July 2023.

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Hikaru Sato

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Rotary Glenferrie welcomes Rotary Global Grants Scholar Hikaro Sato, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Mito, Japan, and hosted by the Rotary Club of Glenferrie. Hikaro is studying for a Masters Degree in Public Health at the Australian Catholic University. Her study in this field relates to one of the Rotary Foundation’s Areas of Focus: Disease Prevention and Treatment, which seeks to limit the spread of communicable diseases, and reduces the incidence and effect of diseases and strengthens the health care system.

Come along and meet Hikaru, hear about her studies in this important field, and learn a little about her life in Japan and the power of the Rotary Foundation's Global Scholarship Program.

Fresh produce, friendly stallholders, gala atmosphere and the joy of shopping outdoors in the fresh air. The Boroondara Farmers Market, voted the best Farmers Market in Victoria, is held on the third and fifth Saturdays of every month.

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Come along and hear the romantic story of the Alma Doepel, built in 1903 and now being lovingly restored by volunteers as a Youth Training Vessel. Bill Reid will introduce us to the ship's early beginnings as a coastal cargo carrier, through war time troop and supply vessel to the ten-year volunteer driven restoration of a traditional tall ship meeting strict maritime standards to offer life changing Youth Sail Training programs.

Bill Reid has been a volunteer for nearly ten years at the Alma Doepel Restoration in Docklands and is currently the President of the Supporters Club.

Fresh produce, friendly stallholders, gala atmosphere and the joy of shopping outdoors in the fresh air. The Boroondara Farmers Market, voted the best Farmers Market in Victoria, is held on the third and fifth Saturdays of every month.

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MUNA stands for Model United Nations Assembly, which simulates the workings of the UN Assembly by having teams of two senior students from each of a number of schools represent a particular UN country in debates on matters of world political and social concern.  

Our team this year was from Loreto Mandeville Hall. It consisted of 3 students: Lucinda Carr, Sophia Hanneberry and Felicia Du

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Terry McAleenan is the Partnerships Manager for The Fathering Project in Victoria.  He started a Dads Group at his daughters’ primary school in 2012 after being inspired by a talk given by The Fathering Project. Terry is passionate about every school and workplace having an active dads program, so that no child misses out on having an engaged father or father figure in their lives. The Fathering Project aims to improve child development outcomes by inspiring and equipping fathers and father figures to effectively engage with their kids. Their vision is for every child in Australia to have an effective father figure.

Fresh produce, friendly stallholders, gala atmosphere and the joy of shopping outdoors in the fresh air. The Boroondara Farmers Market, voted the best Farmers Market in Victoria, is held on the third and fifth Saturdays of every month.

Fresh produce, friendly stallholders, gala atmosphere and the joy of shopping outdoors in the fresh air. The Boroondara Farmers Market, voted the best Farmers Market in Victoria, is held on the third and fifth Saturdays of every month.

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Dharmendra Yadav, who graduated from Monash University specializing in IT, had worked for IBM as a senior manager for over twenty years and operates his own mining consulting company. He has been the founder and president of the Joeys Foundation for more than 12 years, supporting Indian rural schools with playgrounds, scholarships, clean water, and libraries. 

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Dr Shurong Lu, or Sharon, is an epidemiologist and biostatistician in mental health and chronic diseases. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for Mental Health within the University of Melbourne. Sharon’s research focuses on population mental health promotion, particularly for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and for people with chronic diseases. She has recently been working on the evaluation of the teen Mental Health First Aid program through an NHMRC-funded 5-year randomised controlled trial, namely the TeenAID trial.

Fresh produce, friendly stallholders, gala atmosphere and the joy of shopping outdoors in the fresh air. The Boroondara Farmers Market, voted the best Farmers Market in Victoria, is held on the third and fifth Saturdays of every month.

DG Ron Payne, of the Rotary Club of Eaglehawk, will bring the club up to date on the District 9800 priorities, and progress to date.

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In a police career spanning two decades, Lachlan McCulloch was commended for bravery, exposed police corruption, tracked heavy drug gangs and went deep undercover to infiltrate Australia's most dangerous crime family. But his best years in the job were spent on the street dealing with the bad, the sad and the mad. “Lenny Rogers” was a slimy, long haired, bad-ass drug dealing crime figure who infiltrated the infamous Pettingill family ultimately leading to their downfall. Get something wrong and you’re dead was Lachlan’s life for these wild years.

A family man throughout, now a grandfather, avid fisherman, Lachlan is still chasing wrongdoing but in the much safer environment.

Fresh produce, friendly stallholders, gala atmosphere and the joy of shopping outdoors in the fresh air. The Boroondara Farmers Market, voted the best Farmers Market in Victoria, is held on the third and fifth Saturdays of every month.

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Camp Getaway is an ongoing project of the combined Rotary Clubs of District 9800. It caters for those of all abilities and mobility, provides a meeting place for support groups, and offers those who need it most a sanctuary away from their daily struggles.  Whilst disability and related support groups have priority for booking dates, Camp Getaway welcomes bookings from family groups, church groups, clubs, special functions, business meetings, and recreational groups.

Join us to hear Rtn. Ken Maxfield of the Rotary Club of North Balwyn speak about his involvement with Camp Getaway, as Board member, marketing manager and bookings coordinator since 2000.

Fresh produce, friendly stallholders, gala atmosphere and the joy of shopping outdoors in the fresh air. The Boroondara Farmers Market, voted the best Farmers Market in Victoria, is held on the third and fifth Saturdays of every month.

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Australia is the world's only developed country with trachoma, a disease of the eye caused by infection with the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. 

EndTrachoma was an initiative started by Rotary Melbourne and progressed to be a project led by Nourish our Communities Ltd., which enabled End Trachoma to be a Rotary District of Australia project.

Sandi Fulcher is a past president of the Rotary Club of Chadstone East Malvern, holding many roles within that club and at the District level. She is currently the District 9800 Public Image Chair, Rotary Zone 8 Assistant Public Image Chair and is Project Administrator Coordinator for End Trachoma.

Fresh produce, friendly stallholders, gala atmosphere and the joy of shopping outdoors in the fresh air. The Boroondara Farmers Market, voted the best Farmers Market in Victoria, is held on the third and fifth Saturdays of every month.

Fresh produce, friendly stallholders, gala atmosphere and the joy of shopping outdoors in the fresh air. The Boroondara Farmers Market, voted the best Farmers Market in Victoria, is held on the third and fifth Saturdays of every month.

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Fiona Redding is a mindset coach, author, podcaster and motivational speaker, and is the Founder of The Happiness Hunter. In 2012 Fiona woke up with a burning question “How has this become my life?”. Fiona was 37, at home with two tiny kids, drinking every day, and was unfit and unhealthy. At this time, she realised that if she wanted her life to change, she had to own it – it was her that had to change. She decided to focus on one thing: Happiness. The seed of The Happiness Hunter was planted. She started her own coaching, consulting, and speaking business. She started meditating, stopped drinking, and started walking every day. Over the last ten years, Fiona’s life has completely transformed in every single area and through The Happiness Hunter, she teaches and shares everything she has learnt over that time. 

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Fresh produce, friendly stallholders, gala atmosphere and the joy of shopping outdoors in the fresh air. The Boroondara Farmers Market, voted the best Farmers Market in Victoria, is held on the third and fifth Saturdays of every month.

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My parents were born in Ukraine, I am the oldest of 4 children and was born in Poland. My next brother was born in Czechoslovakia and the younger twin brothers were born in Germany - in an American refugee camp where we spent four years waiting to be processed for immigration to a new life in Australia.

We are Ukrainians who fled Russian invasion twice and are grateful to this wonderful country of Australia which provided us with safety, education and the promise of a future.

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Fresh produce, friendly stallholders, gala atmosphere and the joy of shopping outdoors in the fresh air. The Boroondara Farmers Market, voted the best Farmers Market in Victoria, is held on the third and fifth Saturdays of every month.

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PDG Murray Verso is the End Polio Now Coordinator for Rotary Zone 8 (Australia, New Zealand & South Pacific countries). He joined the Rotary Club of Williamstown, Victoria in 1981 and has served the club in many capacities, including two terms as club president (1986-1987 and 2008- 2009). He is a Past Governor of District 9800 (2014-2015).
In Rotary Foundation Month, Murray will talk to us of the work of The Rotarty Foundation, and the continuing global effort to rid the world of the crippling disease of polio.

Fresh produce, friendly stallholders, gala atmosphere and the joy of shopping outdoors in the fresh air. The Boroondara Farmers Market, voted the best Farmers Market in Victoria, is held on the third and fifth Saturdays of every month.

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Join us to hear Jemimah Ashleigh speak about her involvement with the Puri Bhartu Orphanage in Northern Bali.  It is home to 40 children, aged 4 – 17.  Jemimah has been assisting in the running of the orphanage since 2019, and she will tell us about the key challenges they face.  

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Victoria’s first Rotary Peace Scholar Dr. Tania Miletic has kept up her peacebuilding theme ever since District 9800 sent her to two years’ MA studies at Tokyo’s Rotary Peace Centre at ICU in 2002, with a scholarship funded by a grant from The Rotary Foundation.  She is now the Assistant Director of the University of Melbourne's Initiative for Peacebuilding within the Arts Faculty, working to promote multidisciplinary research, teaching and policy development that supports effective engagement in conflict prevention and peacebuilding in the Indo Pacific region. She is an experienced peace and conflict studies academic and practitioner with a commitment to working collaboratively to translate research into policy and practice in conflict prevention and peacebuilding in the Indo Pacific region.

Tania is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences. In Rotary Foundation Month, Tania will be joined by District 9800 Foundation Committee member Gabe Hau, who leads the D9800 Peacebuilder Program.